Intel's 45 nm Penryn CPU: 4 GHz Air Cooled (Benchies!)

[Sardaukar]

You must be registered to see links

Rarely have things looked as good for

You must be registered to see links

as they do right now. Exactly 18 months after the introduction of Intel's highly successful Core 2 CPUs, the chipmaker is updating them. It is shrinking the structures from 65 nm to 45 nm, and is already preparing the next step: the transition to the Nehalem platform. However, that's all still in the future, and won't come to pass until the end of 2008 at the earliest.
The revision of the Conroe architecture - in order to boost its performance, incorporate new instructions, and, most importantly, reduce power consumption - is right on schedule. Until now, Intel's Core 2 processors always played second fiddle to

You must be registered to see links

Athlon 64 X2 processors when it came to power consumption, at least in idle operation. That was also the reason why we built our

You must be registered to see links

-

You must be registered to see links

You must be registered to see links

around an AMD platform. However, this situation has changed with the Penryn core of Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX9650.

Wow, yep.. impressive.. very very impressive.. cmon AMD! Throw us your heat.. lets see what you can do!

 

[linklink88]

Gets me turned on tbh :|

 

[thefalling]

dr00ls

 

[NoPeace]

Not impressed. Kent can do that also. I want to see the Penryn get to 4+ on air.

NoPeace - out

 

[jpbaloga]

first time to hear going over 4Ghz w/ just air cooling but I wonder how long will it live?
wish they also test w/ liquid

 

[NoPeace]

first time to hear going over 4Ghz w/ just air cooling but I wonder how long will it live?
wish they also test w/ liquid

The Celeron D's go up to 5ghz on air and most P4's go up to 4ghz on air with ease. Then again you could get 3.8ghz P4's.

As for the C2D's they can get up to 4ghz on air and so can the quads. Just you need some high voltages.

NoPeace - out

 

[thefalling]

Not impressed. Kent can do that also. I want to see the Penryn get to 4+ on air.

NoPeace - out

I havent seen any benchmarks for teh qx9770, but im sure it could get up there